All Archive Titles articles – Page 635
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Play for today
Tenants from three Merseyside housing associations have been treated to an afternoon of drama to help the RSLs gather feedbackResidents of CDS housing, Hornby Homes and New Generation Housing Association attended the event on 10 and 11 March. Drama group All Talk produced a short play about the area to ...
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Room to move
I was interested to read that while Richmond council says it has halved the number of people reported as homeless, it still has too many families in temporary housing according to the charity Shelter (4 March, page 12).
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Mixed-community pathfinders win in Treasury spending spree...
The Treasury hopes to roll out a multimillion-pound programme to revive the nation’s most deprived areas as part of the comprehensive spending review in 2006
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The quality of Mercia
Work has started on an £8m scheme to build 96 affordable homes for Mercian Housing Association in Digbeth, Birmingham. Housing associations Harden, Trident and Cara will administer 65 homes for shared ownership, 10 for outright sale, 18 for immediate rent and three live/work homes. West Mercia Housing Group is the ...
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Archive TitlesMany questions
Housing spokesmen from the three main political parties faced one of their most challenging pre-election audiences last week – 75 dedicated housing professionals. Questions on the key issues in housing came thick and fast, but will the answers they gave change how you vote? Judge for yourself over these six ...
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Macro managing
I am a relatively new reader of your magazine who has become aware of the huge disparities that exist among different housing associations in terms of how many staff are required to manage them.
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Letter of the week
Fears among supported housing providers about blanket cuts to funding have proved well founded (10 December 2004, page 9).
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Lets stamp on this
I have been a front-line housing manager for more than 16 years, during which time I have dealt with many hundreds of cases, and I can honestly say that antisocial behaviour orders are having a positive effect.
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Hull’s new twist
The possibility that Hull might not transfer its stock is the latest turn in what has become a rollercoaster ride for the council’s housing service.
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Young and old to be housed separately in Perth
Perth & Kinross council is to set aside housing for older people in a bid to stop “lifestyle clashes”.The scheme, which will come into effect on 1 April, would give older people priority for housing in certain circumstances in a bid to avoid disputes such as rows over loud music.The ...
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Can you help?
Have any readers of Housing Today any information or experience of starter tenancies or probationary tenancies across the board on all new lettings?
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Graham Moran
In last week’s issue, on page 31 of the Solutions feature, “Keep the Champagne on ice”, Graham Moran was described as working for Moat Home Ownership as zone agent for south London, Hampshire and Essex.
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Footie index
Chancellor Gordon Brown and Liverpool FC captain Steven Gerrard have kicked off Barclays and the Football Foundation’s £30m investment to create 21 sports sites in the next three years. The Anfield Youth Club, near to the grounds of Liverpool FC, is the first site to benefit from the scheme. The ...
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If we work together we can fix this
In the past making contracts to carry 0ut day-to-day repairs has been straightforward.
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The number of RSLs will fall, says Hill
Housing minister admits 2500 social landlords is too many
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Everybody yurts
Brent South MP Paul Boateng, pictured with 4-year-olds Monique Braithwaite and Reece Johnstone, last week opened the £2.3m Faywood Children’s Centre in Stonebridge, north-west London. The centre, funded by the Stonebridge Housing Trust, includes a science garden, a Mongolian yurt made with half a tonne of sheep’s wool and the ...
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Don’t knock the little guy
Give small housing associations the credit they so obviously deserve
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Demand for financial expertise
Two-thirds of housing association finance departments believe the need for financial expertise will cause an increasing number of mergers over the next 18 months, according to a survey by recruitment consultant Hays Accountancy and Finance.
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Yorkshire pathfinder would be foolish not to curb demolitions
The South Yorkshire Housing market renewal pathfinder has been warned it would be “foolish” to ignore a new plan to protect and reuse buildings on its patch rather than demolish them.
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Archive TitlesCreature discomfort
Discovering a protected species on your site can lead to months of delays on a project and cost you many thousands of pounds. Victoria Madine profiles the four trickiest customers – and reveals how to deal with them.